Fresh revelations about the murder in 2012 of Agnes Wanjiru, a 21-year-old sex worker in Kenya, have reignited calls to decriminalise sex work from the country’s sex workers.
Wanjiru was last seen in the company of a white British soldier at a hotel in the town of Nanyuki, where the British army has a permanent base. Her body was discovered two months later in the hotel’s septic tank.
Sex workers who knew Wanjiru spoke with openDemocracy and insisted that her murder was a result of the criminalisation of sex work – as are many forms and examples of violence against sex workers in Kenya.
